Girls co-stars Lena Dunham and Allison Williams locked lips on Wednesday (18Mar15) as part of a charity challenge in support of autism research.
The actresses accepted the 'Twizzler Challenge' in which two participants bite down on ends of the red licorice candy and chew on it until their lips meet for a kiss. Dunham and Williams posted a video of their challenge on Instagram.com, with Dunham saying in the footage, "We are here to take the Twizzler Challenge for autism..." as Williams added, "New York Collaborates for Autism, we love you."
After they shared a smooch, Dunham confessed, "I have a cold! I didn't want to tell you until now." The two then challenged Broad City comediennes Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, actors Larry David and Rita Wilson, and Scandal's Katie Lowes and Guillermo Diaz, who accepted and posted their own video on social media later that day.
The Twizzler Challenge began earlier this month (Mar15) during annual U.S. telethon Night of Too Many Stars, which works with the organisation New York Collaborates For Autism to raise awareness and funds for research into the developmental disorder. The candy challenge is the latest charity craze to storm social media following last year's (14) famous Ice Bucket Challenge in support of motor neurone disease/ALS.

Scandal is so good because of its actors, story lines, and formula. Oh, you never noticed the formula? If you pay close attention, there are 10 things that happen in every episode in order to pump up the drama.
1. Rowan Pope gives a killer monologue...maybe two.
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2. "Vermont with Fitz" gets mentioned in some way.
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3. But in the next breath "standing in the sun" with Jake is mentioned.
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4. When Olivia and Fitz have a moment their signature music cue goes off.
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5. Huck either tortures someone or talks about his addiction to torturing people.
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6. Before Abby would usually come in and start an argument each episode. But lately she just comes in and asks questions to figure out what the heck is going on!
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7. Quinn angrily reminds everyone that they're Gladiators and to stay on course because she replaced Harrison.
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8. Mellie gets the short end of the stick in some way. Maybe a kid dies, maybe she gets cheated on once again, maybe someone reminds her that her position doesn't matter.
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9. Someone yells at Fitz. Maybe it's Olivia, Jake, Cyrus, or Mellie, but be sure someone is going to school him on some mistake he's making.
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10. Cryus has some sort of conniption.
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Have you noticed anything else that happens in every episode? Tweet us your answers to the handles below!
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Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma leads the film nominations at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards after racking up eight nods. Ava DuVernay's civil rights drama is shortlisted for Outstanding Motion Picture, alongside Belle, Beyond The Lights, Dear White People and James Brown biopic Get On Up, while the filmmaker will compete for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture.
There were also a string of acting nods for Selma's leading man David Oyelowo (Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture), and supporting stars Andre Holland, Common, Wendell Pierce, Carmen Ejogo and Oprah Winfrey.
In the TV categories, six-time nominee Scandal is up for Outstanding Drama Series, facing off against two other Shonda Rhimes creations, Grey's Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder, and Being Mary Jane and House of Cards, while drama acting nods went to Scandal's Kerry Washington and Guillermo Diaz, LL Cool J (NCIS: Los Angeles), Jeffrey Wright (Boardwalk Empire) and Jada Pinkett Smith (Gotham).
Black-ish, House of Lies and Orange Is the New Black are among the nominees for Outstanding Comedy, while Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Don Cheadle (House of Lies), Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project), Laurence Fishburne (Black-ish), Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black) and Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) have been recognised for their comedic acting talents.
Meanwhile, Beyonce and Pharrell Williams have emerged as the ones to beat in the music categories with four nods a piece, just days after both garnering six Grammy Awards nominations on Friday (05Dec14).
Beyonce is in the running for Outstanding Female Artist, Outstanding Music Video and Song for Pretty Hurts, while Pharrell will be fighting for Outstanding Male Artist, Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration for Brand New with Justin Timberlake, and Gust of Wind with Daft Punk. They will both compete for Outstanding Album with respective releases Beyonce and GIRL.
Late King of Pop Michael Jackson has also earned posthumous nods for Outstanding Male Artist and Outstanding Music Video for Love Never Felt So Good with Justin Timberlake.
The winners of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards, which celebrate diversity in film, TV, music and literature, will be unveiled at a ceremony on 6 February (15).

Scandal star Guillermo Diaz loves to boast about going "on tour" with Jay Z and Beyonce, despite missing out on the chance to meet the hip-hop supercouple while filming their On The Run tour movie. The actor, who previously appeared alongside Britney Spears in her 2011 promo for I Wanna Go, was cast alongside Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively and Emmy Rossum in the crime-themed short, which featured Jay Z and Beyonce as gun-toting fugitives.
The four-minute film, set to the sounds of their duet Part II (On The Run), was screened to fans attending the musicians' joint concert tour over the summer (14), and although Diaz is proud to have taken part in the project, he regrets not having the opportunity to meet the famous couple face-to-face.
He explains, "I thought I was gonna get to meet them, I was chasing them in the video, and I showed up to set and they told me they had wrapped the day before, so I never got to meet Beyonce and Jay Z.
"But it was amazing. The video was part of the tour so I was on tour with them for months! Didn't make all the money they made, but... it was awesome, such an amazing experience.
"I'm so lucky, Britney Spears and Beyonce... it's all good."

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Glee star Naya Rivera has turned director for a new short film in honour of America's Immigrant Heritage Month. The 27-year-old actress/singer stepped behind the camera for her very first foray into directing, and her project, Love, America, debuted online on Tuesday (24Jun14).
In the three-minute film, a mysterious piece of paper is passed from person to person, as each of their immigrant stories are revealed. Rivera's film is part of non-profit organisation Welcome.Us' campaign for June's (14) Immigrant Heritage month, which is a nationwide effort to gather and share inspirational stories of immigration in America.
Other celebrities who also tried their hand at directing short films for the project include Joely Fisher, Scandal's Guillermo Diaz, and TV personality Rocsi Diaz.

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Abby, The Deadliest Catch
Darby Stanchfield plays Abby Whelan, and she's come a long way to get to D.C. She actually grew up in small-town Alaska. Her father was a crab fisherman and in an interview she revealed that the Discovery Channel reality series Deadliest Catch actually films in her old neighborhood in Dutch Harbor.
Huck In Drag
Some of you remember Guillermo Díaz from Chappelle's Show, many of us remember him on Weeds, but if you haven't seen Stonewall, you're truly missing out on a completely different side of the actor. In the 1995 film he plays a drag queen named La Miranda. The film tells the powerful story of the police raid on the Greenwich Village Stonewall bar, and the riot that would go down in gay rights history.
Cyrus Has The Hook-Up
Although Jeff Perry says that "nepotism does not actually work in Hollywood", it's very interesting to know that he's married to the casting director for all things Shondaland. Linda Lowy and Perry have been married for some time now and they have one daughter-- so Perry (who played Thatcher Grey on Grey's Anatomy) has definitely got the hook-up. But we know that the real reason he's playing Cyrus Beene is because nobody else could pull off a work-related, afternoon heart attack like he did last season.
Olivia, Subsitute Teacher?
Can you imagine walking into class one day and seeing Kerry Washington standing in front of the blackboard? Because this used to happen to children in New York City schools on a daily basis. Washington worked as a sub right through her first few gigs, but finally had to retire after students started to recognize her as Chenille from Save the Last Dance.
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Statements by Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharaoh ushered in public outcries against the lack of black women on Saturday Night Live. The series made some swift changes and brought Kerry Washington to host, then added Sasheer Zamata to the cast. And yet, the show is still lacking in people of color and LGBTQ cast members and opts for stereotypes over cultural commentary. For a series based on finding the humor in contemporary culture and politics, the show is vastly unrepresentative of America.
To respond to the scandal, Kerry Washington hosted an episode and played Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Beyonce in one sketch. However, the sketch was more cocky and mocking than apologetic. Washington went on to play the stereotypical roles of a gum-chewing assistant with an attitude, a bawdy dating show contestant, and a confused Miss Uganda in a sketch (below) that crossed a lot of lines and had nothing to say.
The characters in the sketch were Miss Universe contestants who represented “fringe countries” like Bolivia, Moldova, and Uganda. Washington walked around aimlessly asking questions in a convincing African accent. But what did the sketch have to say other than to mock people from underdeveloped nations?
Since she joined the cast this season, the lion's share of Zamata's roles have involved dancing in music videos. She is relegated to dancing in the background in sketches like "Resolution Revolution," "28 Reasons," and "Before They Were Stars," and is little more than a Lil Kim lookalike in "What's Poppin'." The sketch below has a lot to say about race and Black History Month, but doesn't offer Zamata any lines or material.
Saturday Night Live isn't much closer at all to embracing "diversity." Finally deeming themselves able to do a Scandal sketch with an Olivia Pope, they further exemplify their monochromatic lineup with the questionable choice of having a white actor play Huck, a character portrayed by Latino actor Guillermo Diaz.
While the Scandal sketch falls admittedly in a gray area of the issue, a separate sketch from the same episode is outright racist. Cecily Strong starred in "Jewelry Party" as a Venezuelan bride who doesn’t realize her husband is part of the Men’s Rights Movement and a character of questionable morality. With no Latino cast members, and the majority of its Latino characters taking this form (igorant or unintelligent), Saturday Night Live is painting a terribly negative image of the group. See for yourself:
As SNL's ratings slip, we have to wonder if Americans are getting tired of laughing at jokes that shoot for uninspired, ignorant jabs. The show is long overdue for a return to sketches that lampoon popular culture and politics, not just shoot for easy stereotypes.
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For the bulk of every Rocky and Bullwinkle episode, moose and squirrel would engage in high concept escapades that satirized geopolitics, contemporary cinema, and the very fabrics of the human condition. With all of that to work with, there's no excuse for why the pair and their Soviet nemeses haven't gotten a decent movie adaptation. But the ingenious Mr. Peabody and his faithful boy Sherman are another story, intercut between Rocky and Bullwinkle segments to teach kids brief history lessons and toss in a nearly lethal dose of puns. Their stories and relationship were much simpler, which means that bringing their shtick to the big screen would entail a lot more invention — always risky when you're dealing with precious material.
For the most part, Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman handles the regeneration of its heroes aptly, allowing for emotionally substance in their unique father-son relationship and all the difficulties inherent therein. The story is no subtle metaphor for the difficulties surrounding gay adoption, with society decreeing that a dog, no matter how hyper-intelligent, cannot be a suitable father. The central plot has Peabody hosting a party for a disapproving child services agent and the parents of a young girl with whom 7-year-old Sherman had a schoolyard spat, all in order to prove himself a suitable dad. Of course, the WABAC comes into play when the tots take it for a spin, forcing Peabody to rush to their rescue.
Getting down to personals, we also see the left brain-heavy Peabody struggle with being father Sherman deserves. The bulk of the emotional marks are hit as we learn just how much Peabody cares for Sherman, and just how hard it has been to accept that his only family is growing up and changing.
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But more successful than the new is the film's handling of the old — the material that Peabody and Sherman purists will adore. They travel back in time via the WABAC Machine to Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the Trojan War, and 18th Century France, explaining the cultural backdrop and historical significance of the settings and characters they happen upon, all with that irreverent (but no longer racist) flare that the old cartoons enjoyed. And oh... the puns.
Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman is a f**king treasure trove of some of the most amazingly bad puns in recent cinema. This effort alone will leave you in awe.
The film does unravel in its final act, bringing the science-fiction of time travel a little too close to the forefront and dropping the ball on a good deal of its emotional groundwork. What seemed to be substantial building blocks do not pay off in the way we might, as scholars of animated family cinema, have anticipated, leaving the movie with an unfinished feeling.
But all in all, it's a bright, compassionate, reasonably educational, and occasionally funny if not altogether worthy tribute to an old favorite. And since we don't have our own WABAC machine to return to a time of regularly scheduled Peabody and Sherman cartoons, this will do okay for now.
If nothing else, it's worth your time for the puns.
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It’s time to get a little superficial up in here! Season three of Scandal is heating up and it’s not just because of all the fake deaths and creepy Papa Pope storylines. We’re guessing the show’s popularity lead to an increase in glam squad budget, because the Gladiators are looking hotter than ever. Leaving Olivia Pope out of this (because, come on...some people are in a class of their own), we’re ranking the amazing Gladiators based on what really matters — hotness.
4. Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes)
We don’t know who’s doing Quinn’s eyeliner this season, but they are killin’ the game. Unfortunately Quinn’s also been pissing a lot of people off this season, seeing as how she can’t stop thinking about that one time she tortured a guy, and it’s been getting her into all kinds of trouble. Get it together, Quinn! Your emotional issues and creepy B6-13 drama plots are affecting your hotness.
3. Huck (Guillermo Díaz)
For the record we are talking about beardless Huck, and normal Huck — not Homeless Huck or Huck after he’s been water boarded by the CIA and hasn’t showered for weeks (à la last season). Huck is always gonna be a cutie, but he’s also still one of the scariest characters on Scandal, which makes him less hot and more "cute guy you'd take a second look at if you saw him in a coffee shop but would quickly look away when you saw the darkness behind his eyes."
2. Harrison Wright (Columbus Short)
Nobody knows how to rock a three-piece suit like Harrison. NOBODY. That is all.
1. Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield)
Last season Harrison might have topped this list, but Abby’s glam squad has seriously changed the game. They put a curling iron to those banging red locks (and clearly added a few tracks), took the smoky eye to a whole ‘nother level, and put her in all of the right clothes. No wonder poor David Rosen can’t keep away! It also helps that Abby’s funky little attitude hasn’t changed. All her über-sarcastic quips + that hair (seriously) = a hotness the likes of which Scandal has never seen.
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Guillermo Díaz has taken on a lot of memorable roles over the years. Scarface from Half Baked, the Wrap It Up guy (among many other characters) from Chappelle's Show, and of course Guillermo from Weeds. But from this point on, most people will simply recognize him as Huck from Scandal. Kerry Washington's character Olivia Pope may be the star, but there have been countless episodes where Huck stole the show. Here are a few reasons why Huck is everyone's favorite Gladiator.
His Throwback Beard Is EverythingIt may sound strange, but if you're a true Scandal fan, Homeless Huck always gets you excited. Before Olivia took him in, Huck was just a former B6-13 agent, living in the subway, and rocking one helluva beard.You Gotta Love A Guy Who Goes To AA Meetings For Killing PeopleWe all need a safe space to address our vices and addictions, and for Huck that safe space is AA. But there's something really hilarious about watching him open up about the "whiskey" he had the other night, when we know full well that "whiskey" was actually a person he tortured and killed. Gotta love Huck.Before He Was A Killer, He Was Actually The Sweetest Guy EverWell, to be fair, Huck is still the sweetest guy ever...just with a few tics. But before he was recruited by the CIA he was a husband (a fact he'd completely forgotten after some light-to-heavy brainwashing). And none of us can forget that episode ("752"!) where it all came back to him and we got to meet his son. Baby Huck makes Big Huck even more lovable.He Totally Turned Quinn OutWhen Huck took Quinn under his wing last season it was adorable. The two of them teamed up, and were hacking into networks and Gladiating all over DC. Huckleberry Quinn was short-lived but it was fun while it lasted. Towards the end of season two Huck was so damaged after being water boarded for killing the President (he was later cleared), and after that crazy chick Becky killed off his whole faux family, he couldn't even torture Billy to get that pesky cytron card! When Quinn took over and got a taste of the B6-13 lifestyle, Huck knew he'd created a monster and this season that monster is only getting worse. Quinn is now becoming one of the more fascinating characters on Scandal, and it's all thanks to Huck.He's Olivia's Favorite (Sorry, Other Gladiators)Let's be real. Liv loves all of her Gladiators and they'd all follow her over a cliff, but she and Huck have something special. We've seen the two of them share some seriously tender moments -- like when Olivia was the only one who could get him to talk about his family when all Huck could say for an entire episode was "7:52." Their special connection is one of the reasons we all keep tuning in to Scandal.
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Summary

Education

Diaz decided he wanted to act when he lip-synced to the Beastie Boys at a high school talent show.

Diaz is openly gay, though he hid his sexuality when he grew up in the rough Washington Heights, NY streets.

"That facade of being somebody I’m really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting." Diaz on hiding his sexuality growing up in an interview with OUT Magazine.

"It was just so much fun, and all these guest stars, like Willie Nelson, Janeane Garofalo, and Snoop. It was amazing. Smoked a lot of weed doing that movie." About the film "Half Baked" in an A.V. Club interview.

"I don’t really anymore. I did, but not really anymore. Now I’m just grateful that I’m working. I try to make everything different." On being typecast in an A.V. Club interview.